Learning from Assisi
In a world with seemingly endless distractions and modern “conveniences” that make us constantly accessible to friends, our jobs and even strangers there is a danger in romanticizing the faith and practices of those who lived in other times and places which appear to...
The Intersectionality of Housing Justice: Race, Climate, and Disability
For the first half of the year, BFJN has decided to dedicate its focus to the issue of housing justice. While we have touched on it before in “Uncomfortable Conversations” and blog posts, we now have the opportunity to explore the issue in more detail. In our recent...
Empowering Our Women
Last semester at Gordon College, I had the privilege of taking Dr. Ruth Melkonian-Hoover’s women and politics class. During this class, we discussed issues of contemporary politics, women’s suffrage in the United States, and learned of the history of women’s movements...
My kingdom go
I have recently been reading Richard Rohr for a Christian Simplicity class I am in. What a blessing and privilege to “have to” read so many insightful, provocative, wise Christian thinkers! There is so much in Rohr’s Eager to Love that I have found challenging and...
Thank God It’s Friday
Thank God it’s Friday! Praise the Lord! If you are reading this right now, guess what? God has carried you through the week, and that in and of itself is a blessing. Despite any of the trials, tribulations, or circumstances of life, we are alive and breathing. With...
Housing Justice
You may have noticed it was a little cold recently – we broke the kind of records you don’t really want to break. Hitting new lows in Boston and elsewhere. Ivy (BFJN’s associate director) and I had the immense privilege of taking a retreat this past weekend. We went...
Rich Toward God – It means what it says
This is our third and final blog considering the parable of the rich fool. Catch up on the first and second entries and then let’s look at these last verses together. After telling the story Jesus commands: Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses...
Rich Toward God: Don’t worry
This is the second of a three-part series on the parable of the rich fool. Last week we looked at what prompted Jesus to tell this story and the story itself. This week we’ll examine one part of Jesus’ post-parable words that help us understand what it is to be rich...
Rich Toward God: Abundance and focus
This is the first blog in a three-part series examining the parable of the rich man and considering how this story and the way Jesus presents it can guide us. The parable can be found in Luke 12. A businessman has more success than he anticipated and in order to...
Worthy of Repair
Hi friends! Although I have been a part of the BFJN community, serving as the Associate Director for just about a year now, this is my first time writing in our blog space, aside from some reflections that I shared last week. What a blessing and honor it is to be...